Benoit Hudzia

News

June 2016 : I gave a talk at Tel-Aviv kernel meetup on Persistent memory Video and Slides.

January 2016 : Founded Blopeur Ltd. a boutique advisory service as a side activity. Where we provide provides high-value, rapid-turnaround IT, management, and strategic consulting services to owners, executives and managers.

December 2015 : Still doing exciting cloud and distributed system at Stratoscale.

December 2013 : I'm excited to announce that I am moving to a new company: Stratoscale.

November 2013 : Hecatonchire Website has been pulled from internet by SAP , I hope to be authorised to fork/ mirror it in the near future.

His past research focused on bringing together the flexibility of virtualization, cloud and high performance computing ( A.K.A the "Lego cloud"). This framework aims at providing memory, I/O and CPU resource disagregation of physical server while enabling dynamic management and aggregation capabilities to Linux native application as well as to Linux/KVM VMs using commodity hardware.

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Projects and Code :

Projects Hecatonchire :

Benoit Hudzia is the founder, lead architect of the Hecatonchire Project ("Hundred-Handed One" in Greek Mythology). Hecatonchire is a framework of tools (Kernel and Userspaces) aiming to provide memory, I/O and CPU resource aggregation capabilities to x86/Linux native application as well as to Linux/KVM VMs using commodity hardware and fast RDMA-enabled interconnects.

In its current state, Hecatonchire focus on memory related capabilities such as: post-copy live migration and VM-based memory pooling. While other capabilities such as application-transparent memory pooling, VM flash cloning and I/O pooling are in the development pipeline.

Hecatonchire is Open Source Free Software, and is freely available under the GNU General Public License, version 2.

Qemu-KVM :

Benoit Hudzia worked essentially on optimising the live migration process for large enterprise workloads of Qemu-KVM project. His worked focused on two different aspect: